Friday, May 14, 2010

Shahid Kapur’s upcoming flick ‘Badmaash Company’, which has Indian Idol winner Meiyang Chang as one of the four friends(other three being Shahid Kapur, Anushka Sharma and Vir Das), will show him as Chang who is habitual of alcohol and eventually turns against the other three friends of the company, causing heartburn and downfall of the friends.

Meiyang Chang, who can not take alcohol in real life due to some medical problem, had to depend for the shooting on his past college experience when he would drink with friends on social occasions. In consonant with his Sikkim origin, Meiyang Chang will be seen in the film as a character coming from the North Eastern part of India who can speak fluent Hindi.

Meiyang’s stints with Indian Idol, and later his association with the hosting of Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, certainly helped him here. Parmeet Sethi, the director who is making his debut with this Yashraj production, wanted someone fresh- faced but with good command over Hindi and Meiyang fully fitted the bill.

The film has Shahid Kapur in the main lead, who is from a middle class background but achieves prominence after grouping with his other three friends. Anushka Sharma plays the love interest of Shahid Kapur.

‘Badmaash Company’ is all set to be released on May 7 and also expected to rescue Yashraj Films out of doldrums and negativity which has been plaguing it due to a series of flops like ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’( starring Shahid Kapur and Rani Mukerji). This is also second film of Anushka Sharma with the banner after making her debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’.

Even Shahid Kapur needs a big hit to salvage his reputation at the box office after the debacle of ‘Chance Pe Dance’ and ‘Hadippa’.